Goodreads asked Michael Raleigh:

Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Michael Raleigh All his life Gallagher had searched relentlessly for the Leprechauns, the Little People who, he was certain, lived beneath his house, despite the Old Ones warning him not to try too hard. Nonetheless, Gallagher spent years tunneling under his house and yard, and finally one gray day, saw the earth move, stuck his big fist into the wet ground, and saw a tiny human-like head sink its fangs into his hand, felt the poison paralyzing his entire body, and understood he was dead.

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